Avoid eating grapefruit when taking lipid-lowering drugs.
Eating grapefruit has many benefits.
◆ High nutritional value …
★ Beauty care, anti-aging, prevention of cardiovascular diseases, and reduction of cancer incidence.
★ Rich in natural fruit fiber and vitamin C, it is an anti-aging holy product for female friends to lose weight, beautify and keep skin tender.
★ Maintain health and moisten the lungs on weekdays to enhance immunity; Eating after meals is helpful for digestion, defecation and maintaining the metabolic cycle of the body.
★ Rich in vitamin P, it has the function of clearing cholesterol in blood. Eating more can prevent angina pectoris and heart disease.
★ Grapefruit meat belongs to citrus alkaline food and contains complete low molecular antioxidants, which can improve acidic constitution. The medical community has found that eating more grapefruit fruit can effectively reduce the incidence of cancer.
★ The high-quality Madou Wendan selected by Madou Town Farmers' Association is of guaranteed quality, sweet and delicious, suitable for both gift giving and personal use.
◆ Other uses of grapefruit:
★ Pomelo peel can be used for bathing, beauty and mosquito prevention: Pomelo peel is rich in essential oil. When it is boiled into soup, it will not only have a cosmetic effect, but also avoid being harassed by mosquitoes, because mosquitoes don't like the taste of grapefruit.
★ Pomelo peel can be used as a deodorant in the refrigerator: put the peeled grapefruit peel in the corner of the refrigerator. The smell of pomelo peel can eliminate the odor in the refrigerator and give off a faint grapefruit smell.
This family belongs to the mature fruit of pomelo, a rutaceae plant. There are many varieties of pomelo, among which the famous varieties are Wendan pomelo, Shatian pomelo, Pingshan pomelo, Sijipao and Dahongpao.
Alias Frosted Pomelo, Smelly Orange, Throw, and Wendan
Cold in nature and sweet and sour in taste. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian.
Efficacy is mainly used for invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, regulating qi and relieving hangover. Indications: dyspepsia, abdominal distension, cough with excessive phlegm, dysentery, diarrhea, and light mouth during pregnancy.
The nutritional components of each 100g fresh fruit contain water 84.8g, protein 0.7g, fat 0.6g, carbohydrate 12.2g, 57 kcal, crude fiber 0.8g, ash 0.9g, calcium 4 1mg, phosphorus 43mg, iron 0.9mg and carrot 0.65438. It is also rich in organic acids.
food therapy
1. Naringin and hesperidin, which have antibacterial and antiviral effects, can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmonella typhi in vitro. Naringin can inhibit yeast and fungi, and has preventive and protective effects on virus-infected mice. Naringin and hesperidin in grapefruit are similar to other flavonoids and have anti-inflammatory effects.
2, lowering blood sugar In fresh grapefruit juice, it contains insulin-like ingredients, which can lower blood sugar and is a good diet for patients with diabetes and obesity.
3. antispasmodic and enhance the effect of vitamin C. Naringin contained in grapefruit has obvious antispasmodic effect. However, pomelo peel and hesperidin can improve blood cell coagulation and decrease capillary resistance in vitamin C deficient mice.
4. The outer skin of expectorant and cough-relieving sleeves is a commonly used Chinese medicine exocarpium citri grandis. The limonene and pinene contained in it can dilute respiratory secretions after inhalation, which is beneficial to the discharge of sputum. It has good expectorant and antitussive effects, and is a good product for the treatment of chronic cough and asthma in the elderly.
Healthy diet
1. grapefruit stewed chicken 1 grapefruit (overwintering in the next year is preferred) and 1 rooster (about 500g). Slaughter the chicken first and wash it according to the usual method; Then peel the grapefruit and take the meat, put it into the chicken's stomach, add some water, steam it in water, and the chicken will eat the soup. Weekly 1 time, three times in a row. The chicken has the effects of warming middle warmer, invigorating qi, invigorating lung, reducing qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is suitable for cough and asthma attack due to lung deficiency.
2. Grapefruit juice honey cream 5-8 grapefruit, 5ml honey, rock sugar 100g, ginger juice 10ml. Peel grapefruit, remove the core and wring juice, fry with slow fire until it becomes thick, add honey, rock sugar and ginger juice, cook until it becomes paste, cool and bottle for later use. Every time 1 spoon, take it with boiling water twice a day. The ointment has the effects of warming middle warmer, regulating qi, regulating stomach and stopping vomiting, and is suitable for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy and stomach pain.
3. grapefruit sealed broiler 1 (8O0 ~ 1000g), broiler1(about 500g), and appropriate amount of yellow wine. Cut the top cover of grapefruit with a knife, take out the pulp, and keep the grapefruit shell (cover) for later use; Slaughter live chickens, unhairing, cleaning and cutting into small pieces; Put the chicken nuggets and internal organs into the pomelo shell, pour 2 spoonfuls of yellow wine, cover it, tie it firmly with a bamboo stick, and then tie it tightly with a thin wire to prevent the pomelo cover from moving;
Wet a large piece of white paper with water and stick it on two layers outside the pomelo peel, wrap the pomelo peel with thick yellow mud paste and seal the whole pomelo (mud thickness is about1cm); After a quarter of an hour, when the mud is slightly dry, put it into the prepared firewood ash cupping (with the pomelo cover facing up) and simmer it with high fire (about 4-6 hours); Take out the mud-sealed grapefruit chicken pieces and pour them into a porcelain basin. Slice grapefruit shell, dry in the sun (or dry), bottle and seal.
Eat chicken pieces 3-4 times, grapefruit slices once a day 1 time, and each time 10g, brew with boiling water instead of tea. Pomelo peel chicken has the functions of invigorating spleen and lung, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and is a dietotherapy prescription for treating chronic debilitating bronchitis and bronchial asthma.
4. There are 1 ripe grapefruit and 100g green tea in citron tea. Cut the grapefruit with a lid, take out the pulp, put it in green tea, wrap it with a lid, keep it in the shade for more than 1 year, and take it with tea boiled water. The tea has the effects of promoting qi circulation, promoting digestion and relieving pain, and can be used for preventing and treating abdominal pain, diarrhea and dyspepsia.
5. Stewed olives with pomelo peel: 15g pomelo peel and 30g olives. Wash and chop the pomelo peel, put it in a pot and add 700 ml of water. After cooking, remove the residue and take the juice, about 500 ml. Wash the olives, put them in a ceramic container, steam them over high fire, and then help yourself. L, the day is over. Seven days is a course of treatment. The food has the effects of harmonizing middle energizer, calming stomach, lowering adverse flow and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for adverse reactions caused by vomiting during pregnancy, abdominal distension and disharmony between liver and stomach.
Precautions: grapefruit is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat less; Exocarpium Citri Grandis is warm and dry, which is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and dry cough.
Selected document
"Japanese Herbal Medicine": "Treat pregnant women and eat less. Eliminate pathogenic qi in the stomach, promote digestion and eliminate gastrointestinal qi. Hangover, cure the spirit of drinkers. "
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Xiaoshi can quickly sweat, dispel anger and resolve phlegm."
"Food supplement secretary": "The skin is expectorant, digestion accelerates the diaphragm, and the skin is white. Burn ash and adjust porridge to treat flatulence. "
Records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "hangover, kidney edema, indigestion, wet phlegm cough, hernia."
Cultural appreciation
Lingnan Miscellanies: "Grapefruit smells like gardenia, red meat is sweet, and white meat is sour. But Zengcheng You Xiang is small and white, and the meat is sweet and abnormal. " Folklore: In the south of China, every family must have grapefruit on Mid-Autumn Festival. Grapefruit is a symbol of family reunion and a better life. It is warm and poetic for the whole family to get together and enjoy pomelo and the moon.